The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

States Rights died at Appomattox.

How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.